Three-dimensional crack tip deformation measurement using combined Moiré-Sagnac interferometry

A combined Moiré-Sagnac interferometry method is developed for in-plane (u andv) and out-of-plane (w) surface deformation measurement. The combined optical setup is used to measure three-dimensional crack tip deformations of AI 2024-0 and AI 2024-T4 specimens at room temperature and an inconel 909 specimen at 570°C. Measured displacements near the crack tip region of the AI 2024-T4 specimen are used as input nodal displacements to determine stress intensity factors based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional Jacobian derivative method. The values compare favorably with theoretical calculations. The extent of the three-dimensional crack tip deformation zone is also discussed.     

Intergranular strain evolution near fatigue crack tips in polycrystalline metals

The deformation field near a steady fatigue crack includes a plastic zone in front of the crack tip and a plastic wake behind it, and the magnitude, distribution, and history of the residual strain along the crack path depend on the stress multiaxiality, material properties, and history of stress intensity factor and crack growth rate. An in situ, full-field, non-destructive measurement of lattice strain (which relies on the intergranular interactions of the inhomogeneous deformation fields in neighboring grains) by neutron diffraction techniques has been performed for the fatigue test of a Ni-based superalloy compact tension specimen. These microscopic grain level measurements provided unprecedented information on the fatigue growth mechanisms. A two-scale model is developed to predict the lattice strain evolution near fatigue crack tips in polycrystalline materials. An irreversible, hysteretic cohesive interface model is adopted to simulate a steady fatigue crack, which allows us to generate the stress/strain distribution and history near the fatigue crack tip. The continuum deformation history is used as inputs for the micromechanical analysis of lattice strain evolution using the slip-based crystal plasticity model, thus making a mechanistic connection between macro- and micro-strains. Predictions from perfect grain-boundary simulations exhibit the same lattice strain distributions as in neutron diffraction measurements, except for discrepancies near the crack tip within about one-tenth of the plastic zone size. By considering the intergranular damage, which leads to vanishing intergranular strains as damage proceeds, we find a significantly improved agreement between predicted and measured lattice strains inside the fatigue process zone. Consequently, the intergranular damage near fatigue crack tip is concluded to be responsible for fatigue crack growth.     

巴西圆盘泥岩试件裂纹扩展及应变演化实验研究

为了研究准静态加载条件下岩石试件巴西劈裂裂纹扩展规律,采用MTS试验机进行准静态加载,同时用高速摄像机记录裂纹扩展过程。采用白光数字散斑处理软件对摄像机记录的照片进行处理,得到试件裂纹扩展过程中应变场的演化情况。通过实验和分析可以看出,由于端部效应及加载方式的原因,因此裂纹起裂点在底部加载部位;泥岩试件表面裂纹的平均扩展速度为252m/s;岩石的非均质性即内部微缺陷、微裂纹使得泥岩试样的开裂并不是沿着中心直径方向,而是偏离一定的角度,初始偏离角度约为17°。裂纹扩展过程可以划分为三个阶段:泥岩试件宏观变形阶段(宏观无裂纹)、宏观裂纹稳定扩展阶段、宏观裂纹动态张裂阶段。同时,在裂纹扩展过程中,表面第一主应变场、水平位移场等变化明显,在开裂部位第一主应变最大。通过对圆盘泥岩试件裂纹扩展实验研究,可为研究岩石破裂及其演化规律提供依据。     

Experimental GH singularity field around growing crack-tip

The displacement fieldsu _x ,u _y at growing crack tip of LY12-M specimens with double edge cracks are measured using moire method. The experimental singularity fields are compared with GH theoretical field [12–14]. The size and shape of the experimental GH singularity fields are obtained. The error in both the experimental and theoretical evaluations is controlled within ±10%. The experiments show that there is singularity dominant around a growing crack tip. The shape of this dominant region ranges from butterfly wing to oblate and circular. Inside GH-field, there is a 3-D deformed damage zone where no GH singularity exists. The project suppoted by National Natural Science Foundation of China     

Study of a Crack at a Fastener Hole by Digital Image Correlation

In this work the efficacy of using digital image correlation to determine stress intensity factors for a crack emanating from a fastener hole has been investigated. To this end a fatigue crack was grown in pure mode I from a 50 mm diameter hole in an Al 7010 alloy plate test-piece. This crack was then loaded elastically under several combinations of mixed mode (I + II) displacements. In each case, images of the sample surface before and after the deformation were recorded using a high resolution digital camera. The surface preparation consisted only of scratching the surface lightly with silicon carbide abrasive paper. The crack location and resulting displacements were then calculated using digital image correlation. The analytical displacement fields for a traction free crack under arbitrary loading conditions based on the Muskhelishvili’s complex function approach were fitted to the experimentally measured displacement fields and the mixed mode stress intensity factor was determined in each case. Good agreement with the nominal applied values was obtained. The uncertainty of the crack tip position has a major influence on the accuracy of the stress intensity factors and so the Sobel edge finding filter was successfully applied to experimental displacement fields to establish precisely the crack tip location. This paper was presented at the 2007 SEM Congress held in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA     

扩展裂纹尖端奇异场的实验研究

用云纹方法测量了 LY12-M 铝材,双边裂纹试件、扩展裂纹沿 x和y方向位移场u_x,u_y。实验的裂纹尖端奇异场与 GH 理论奇异场进行了比较。两者偏差在±10％范围内,得到实验的 GH 奇异场范围与形状。实验证明:扩展裂纹尖端场有(lnA/r)~(α+1)奇异主导区。该主导区形状由腰子形向扁圆、圆形过渡,接近裂纹扩展时形状不规则。在 GH 主导区内,裂纹尖端附近有一个三维贲形,材料损伤区。在该区内 GH 奇异性不存在。     

Higher order fields for damaged nonlinear antiplane shear notch, crack and inclusion problems

Damaged nonlinear antiplane shear problems with a variety of singularities are studied analytically. A deformation plasticity theory coupled with damage is employed in analysis. The effect of microscopic damage is considered in terms of continuum damage mechanics approach. An exact solution for the general damaged nonlinear singular antiplane shear problem is derived in the stress plane by means of a hodograph transformation, then corresponding higher order asymptotic solutions are obtained by reversing the stress plane solution to the physical plane. As example, traction free sharp notch and crack, rigid sharp wedge and flat inclusion, and mixed boundary sharp notch problems are investigated, respectively. Consequently, higher order fields are obtained, in which analytical expressions of the dominant and second order singularity exponents and angular distribution functions of the near tip fields are derived. Effects of the damage and hardening exponents of materials and the geometric angle of notch/wedge on the near tip quantities are discussed in detail. It is found that damage leads to a weaker dominant singularity of stress, but to little stronger singularities of the dominant and second order terms of strain compared to that for undamaged material. It is also seen that damage has important effect on the angular distribution functions of the near tip stress and strain fields. As special cases, higher order analytical solutions of the crack and rigid flat inclusion tip fields are obtained, respectively, by reducing the notch/wedge tip solutions. Effects of damage and hardening exponents on the dominant and second order terms in the solutions of the crack and inclusion tip fields are discussed.     

Measurement of the strain field near a crack tip in polymethylmethacrylate by holographic interferometry

An experimental method has been developed for the detailed, real-time study of the strain field near a crack tip in any transparent material. This method combines holography and interferometry to measure the field of averaged transverse strain in a sheet specimen under inplane loading. It is shown that the solution for an edge crack in a semi-infinite sheet based on two-dimensional linear elastic theory can be applied to the finite-width polymethylmethacrylate specimen. This solution is observed to become less valid as the crack tip is approached due to the breakdown of the plane-stress assumption. This effect is evaluated for a range of thicknesses from much less to much more than the crack length.     

基于数字散斑相关方法测定Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子

提出了一种通过数字散斑相关方法测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹尖端位置和应力强度因子的实验方法.实验采用疲劳试验机对含Ⅰ型缺口的Cr12MoV钢试件预制裂纹,通过数字散斑相关方法测试试件在三点弯曲加载条件下裂纹的扩展过程及裂尖区域的位移场.将位移场数据代入裂尖位移场方程组,采用牛顿-拉普森方法求解含未知参量的裂尖非线性位移场方程组,计算裂尖位置和应力强度因子.实验结果表明,采用该方法可以准确地测定金属材料Ⅰ型裂纹应力强度因子、裂尖位置及裂纹扩展长度,解决了以往研究中因不能准确测定裂纹尖端位置,而无法准确计算Ⅰ型裂纹裂尖断裂参数的难题,揭示了金属材料裂纹扩展过程中应力强度因子演化特征.     

Initial kinking of an interface crack between two elastic media

The initial kinking of a thin fracture process zone near the crack tip under plane strain is studied using the Wiener-Hopf method. The crack is located at the interface between dissimilar elastic media. The fracture process zone is modeled by a straight line of normal displacement discontinuity emerging from the crack tip at an angle to the interface. The angle between the process zone and the interface is determined from the condition of strain energy maximum in the process zone. The dependences of the length and angle of the process zone on the external load and other parameters of the problem are studied. The results are compared with theoretical and experimental data obtained by other researchers __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 28–41, October 2007.     

Research for the strain energy release rate of complex cracks by using point-by-point closed extrapolation approach

IntroductionTheresearchforcalculatingstrainenergyreleaserateisaveryimportanttaskforsolvingfracturemechanicsproblems.Inthepreviouscalculationforenergyreleaserate,externalforceworkwassubtractedbystrainenergy ,whichisthemethodoffreeenergy[1],thenodalforcesandnodaldisplacementsbetweentopandbottomsurfacesofcrackwasalsousedtocalculateenergyreleaserate[2 - 5 ].Theyarebothapproximatecalculations.Theformeriscomplex ,althoughtherearesomeadvisablefeaturesindefinition ,andawholecalculationforstrainenergy …     

Experimental investigation of GH singularity field of the growing crack-tip for different ductile metals

The displacementsu _x ,u _y inx, y directions at growing crack tip of the specimens with double edge cracks for four different alumium alloys and two coppers are measured by using moire method and optical spatial filtering technique. From experimental displacement fields, the displacement singularity fields are obtained and compared with GH theoretical field. Unknown constantsA and _yo in theoretical solution are determined from experimental data. The theoretical singularity field thus compared is given for plane-stress, mode-I, strain-hardening materials. The error in both the experimental and theoretical evaluations is within ± 10%. The experiments show that there exists dominant singularity region around a growing crack-tip. In the experiments, the strain hardening indexn amounts from 3.158 to 14. The shape of this dominant region ranges from butterfly wing to oblate or circular shape. The size and shape of GH dominant region depend on the material property, the specimen geometry and loading type. Inside GH-field, there is a 3-D deformed damage zone, where no GH singularity exists. Very near to the crack-tip, there is a fracture process zone.The project is supported by the National Science Foundation of China.     

非晶态高聚物裂尖银纹损伤场

在非晶态高聚物裂端塑性区引入银纹损伤，提出了一个修正的Dugdale模型，并由它确定塑性区的大小，算例表明，银纹损伤导致了塑性区深度的增加。此外，在Dugdale模型下研究了稳态扩展的端塑性区，在裂纹缓慢扩展、小范围银纹化以及材料为线粘弹性等假定下，由能量原理得到了控制裂纹生长的一个非线性微分一积分方程，从中看到银纹损伤的影响十分显著。     

The analysis of crack problems with non-local elasticity

IntroductionTheclassicalconhnuummechanicshasbeenusedtosolvemanyproblemsinmacrofracturemechanics,butencountersdifficulheswhentheeffectofITilcrocharacteristicdimensionshouldbetakenintoaccount.Thestressfieldverynearthecracktipisstillnotclear.Somephenomenaofshortcrackscannotbeexplained["']andsomemechanismoffracturehasnotbeensolvedyet.Thenon-localelashcitytheoryseemsattractivetotheseproblems.Thetheoryofnon-localelasticity,establishedanddevelopedbyEringenetal[3),connectstheclassicalcontinuummechan…     

复合材料修补结构腐蚀扩展特性实验研究

为了研究腐蚀环境对复合材料修补结构疲劳特性的影响,开展以某型飞机加速环境谱为基础的预腐蚀试验,并采用递进式的试验方法分别完成对未修补未腐蚀、修补但未腐蚀、又修补又腐蚀的试样疲劳裂纹扩展试验。利用试验数据计算了复合材料修补构型、腐蚀环境对裂纹尖端应力强度因子影响的修正系数,并确定了通过试验验证的修补结构疲劳裂纹扩展修正模型。该模型预测腐蚀环境下修补结构的疲劳寿命与试验值一致。试验数据和预测模型可为海军飞机复合材料修补结构的损伤容限设计提供参考。     

混凝土复合型裂纹扩展的非局部近场动力学建模分析

基于非局部近场动力学理论,构建了修正的能反映混凝土宏观拉压异性和断裂特征的近场动力学本构模型,开发了相应的离散、加载和时间积分算法,实现典型混凝土构件中复合型裂纹扩展过程模拟。在物质点对尺度上定义局部损伤并考虑物质点对的相对转动,通过求解时空微-积分方程实现裂纹的自然萌生与扩展,避免裂尖不连续带来的求解奇异性、网格依赖性和网格重构以及常规近场动力学本构模型的泊松比限制。通过含单边和双边初始裂纹四点剪切混凝土梁裂纹扩展破坏全过程模拟,得到破坏形态、破坏荷载以及完整的荷载-裂纹开口滑移曲线,并与试验和其他数值模拟结果对比,验证了模型的精确性和算法的稳定性。     

Stress and energy density fields near a blunted crack front in power hardening material

Using Jaumann and Dienes rates of Euler stress in elastic-plastic constitutive equations of finite deformation, plane strain finite element analysis for a compact tension specimen with a blunted crack front is made. The Euler stress, Kirchhoff stress and volume strain energy density near a blunted crack tip are computed. Constitutive relations with different deformation rates affect the the near crack tip solution in a region within an order of magnitude of the crack opening displacement. The results differed from the corresponding solution of deformation plasticity (or nonlinear elasticity) with increasing deformation. They are smaller in a local region of about 2 to 10 times of the crack opening distance.The volume energy density near the crack tip is computed, the stationary values of which determine the locations of extensive yielding and possible sites of crack initiation. It remained nearly constant with increasing deformation. Such a character tends to support the volume energy density criterion as a means for quantifying the ductile fracture behavior of metals.     

各向异性介质中SH波引起的裂纹扩展

本文利用Green函数法,求解各向异性介质中半无限长裂纹在SH波作用下,以任意速度扩展的问题。首先,利用Laplace变换和Cagniard-de Hoop反演法求解各向异性介质中反平面问题的Green函数,并利用它建立了求解裂纹扩展问题的积分方程。因为方程为Abel型的,所以可得到在SH波作用下,半无限长裂纹扩展问题的解析解。还可求得裂纹端点附近的应力和裂纹表面上位移的表达式。并对裂纹端点附近的奇异性进行讨论。最后讨论了裂纹尖端附近任一点的能量关系。并应用Griffith的能量准则,对裂纹扩展规律进行了讨论。     

Analysis of deformation-induced crack tip toughening in ductile single crystals by nano-indentation

This paper reports on the experimental examination of the deformation characteristics near a crack tip in a cyclically work-hardened copper single crystal using a 2D surface scans with nano-indentation. The experimental methodology enables the characterization of the primary deformation field near a crack tip via the modulation of the imposed secondary deformation field by a nano-indentation. In a heavily deformed 4-point bend specimen, the measurements showed an existence of an asymptotic field around the crack tip at a distance of R ⩾ 2.5J/σ₀. The measurements also showed the qualitative details of toughness evolution within the high-gradient deformation field around the crack tip. The nature of dislocation distribution (i.e. statistically distributed vs. distributions necessitated by geometry) around the crack tip is quantified. The measurements indicate the dominance of the geometrically necessary dislocation within the finite deformation zone ahead of the tip up to a distance of R ≈ 3J/σ₀. Thereafter, it is confined in radial rays coinciding with the sector boundaries around the crack tip. These measurements elucidate the origin of the inhomogeneous hardening and the size dependent macroscopic response close to crack tip.     

Effect of residual surface stress on the fracture of nanoscale materials

The problem of a mode I crack in nanomaterials under a remote mechanical load is investigated. The effect of the residual surface stress on the crack surface is considered and the solutions to the crack opening displacement (COD) and the stress intensity factor (K_I) are obtained. The results show that the surface effect on the crack deformation and crack tip field are prominent at nanoscale. Moreover, COD and K_I are influenced by the residual surface stress not only on the surface near the crack tip region but also on the entire crack surface.